Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a terrible shock when you opened your eyes and looked so steadily at me . |
| 2 | Further , it agreed to form a club and to do so in accordance with a ‘ sub-committee ’ report on the rules governing bondholders . |
| 3 | They hanged the couple on the understanding that Combe would become part of Berkshire and remain so . |
| 4 | Being considerate when passing walkers and doing so slowly . |
| 5 | She sipped her tea and looked so long and thoughtfully into the fire that Carrie began to think she had forgotten her . |
| 6 | ‘ Despite the new Golf 's unadventurous styling , ’ I wrote , ‘ Volkswagen deserves an accolade for putting its commercial weight and influence so heavily behind safety and environmental concerns … consistent emphasis on durability and reliability … inspired engineering of the VR6 version … ‘ |
| 7 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 8 | With few exceptions ( see below ) , all the haematological and biochemical values were normal at the start of the study and remained so throughout . |
| 9 | They should be carefully lifted in clumps , teased apart , and then pricked out into conventional plastic trays and submerged so that the compost is about 2.5 cm ( 1 in ) beneath the surface of the water . |
| 10 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 11 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 12 | Lewis had fallen fast asleep on the back seat of the police car and remained so for the whole of the journey back to Oxford . |
| 13 | If we try to shoe or float a horse , and it decides to be uncooperative , and we retaliate with force and anger so that the horse becomes anxious and fearful ; the horse will remember that such a situation terrified it . |
| 14 | They set about an extensive programme of repair and renovation of the complex and have so far successfully restored one of the Clutterbuck water wheels , as well as a Tangye Compound Steam Engine ( plus a portable boiler ) , that formerly powered stick making machinery . |
| 15 | Such assets as Virgin had were almost meaningless : not the bricks and mortar so reassuring on the balance sheet , but the more nebulous assets of music and publishing copyrights tangible enough , perhaps , to people who understood the music business , and knew that at any given moment Virgin could raise millions if they so chose ; less comprehensible to a bank where customers were still greeted by frock-coated doormen . |
| 16 | Bricks and mortar so far as I 'm concerned . |
| 17 | That 's why Speedbird holidays give such pleasure and work so well . |
| 18 | He was challenged by his University Professors to put his faith into action and did so by ‘ Going to the Poor ’ . |
| 19 | Whatever his motives , his contribution was unwelcome : he was , he said , taken to one side and told so ; he seemed to suffer no other reprisals . |
| 20 | In 1812 , when war broke out between the infant U.S.A. and Britain over territorial disputes on the Canadian border , Eckford was asked by the U.S. Government to supervise the building of warships on the great lakes and to do so he gave up his own business . |
| 21 | A Study Skills Handbook sets out to train the students in all these areas and does so in an authoritative no-nonsense manner ( making frequent use of Golden Rules ) and through a wealth of practical exercises . |
| 22 | Who , apart from speakers born into a bilingual community of this particular sort , would have , or be able to have , such a linguistic range and to perform so many delicate acts of linguistic negotiation in day-to-day interaction ? |
| 23 | Meanwhile the crowd outside , sensing a scandal , pressed even more closely against the windows of the gallery and grew so thick that the traffic was held up . |
| 24 | He has n't mentioned it since and neither have I , but I 'm in a mess and feel so guilty . |
| 25 | Editor , — John Wright and Helen Ford describe the anguish and despair affecting many sub-Saharan African countries and made so much worse recently by drought . |
| 26 | I think we call er the volunteers , or those who run the shops anyway , Sally 's Army and that is in my way a tribute to Sally Barker who 's chairman of our branches advisory committee and does so much to make sure that the money does get raised in the field . |
| 27 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 28 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |
| 29 | When they sing , they vary the frequency of individual clicks from , for example , two hundred a second to five hundred a second and do so in a regular rhythmic way . |
| 30 | By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day . |